The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-04

selected for the Fourth OF July celebration
at Sanford
The U. S. Grant Post No. 10, G. A. r., of
Orlando. appropriately observed Monday by
decorating the graves of the Union dead IN
the city cemetery.
AS vet there is no receiver at the United
States Land Office IN Gainesville, and bust
ness at that Office is very much restricted In
consequence thereof.
The contract for the building of the Bel
lamy bridge across the Aucilla river was on
Tuesday last awarded TO Mr.. Frank John
son, be being the lowest bidder.
The English residents of Palatka and
vicinity will celebrate Queen Victoria's
Jubilee oil June 81 by giving supper at
the Saratoga Hotel at Palatka.
T. J. Appleyard is moving his printing
office from Palatka to Oakland, in Orange
county, where he will reside hereafter. He
will resume the publication of the Southern
Sun at that point.
Last Friday night the store of Messrs.
Root & Singleton, at Glen Ethel, was ell
tered by thieves who took quite a quantity
of clothing, and money and stamps to the
amount of abont 500 No arrests yet.
John S. Arnold, Superintendent of the
South Florida Telegraph Company at San
ford, has been awarded the contract for
supplying and stringing the wire for the
Sanford-Jupiter military telegraph line.
D. B. Grub, of Melbourne, has tomato
vine over ten feet in length, one and n half
inches in diameter and covered with blooms,
ripe and green fruit He also has a rose
bush, two and half feet high, with It's
roses on it.
The officers appointed for the new county
of Osceola are: J. NJ. Lee, Clerk; T. A.
Bass. Sheriff; C.. A. Carson, Treasurer;
William R. johnson, County Judge, and
DR.. W. D. Sears, Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
| The Orlando water works were tested
Monday afternoon, in accordance with the
terms of the contract. The test was in
every way satisfactory. With 100 pounds
pressure four streams were thrown stimuli
, taneously to height OF Is feet.
L. F. Bornet shipped the first load of
watermelons from Oxford Tuesday and
they were beauties. too A large acreage
was planted in melons, and the crop prom
ises to yield abundantly and with pros
pect of gco3 prices, the business promises
| success.
The frame of the new factory building at
Longwood is up, and the substantial charac-
ter and systematic arrangement of the build
ing are already apparent. The steam-coil
and blower for furnishing hot air blast TO
the dry kiln are also on the ground and will
soon be in position.
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| for Washington and New York with many
specimens for museum in Central Park
| New York. He takes with him about 800
! specimens of different animals, birds and
other curiosities, among others very fine
specimen Of the large owl
A Palatka bank has all the State deposits
now. but bill has been introduced to have
it divided among the banks of Jacksonville,
| Tallahassee, Pensacola, Ocala, ETC., so as to
scatter it all over the State. Besides these
banks give bond and pay fair interest for
its use. In all probability it will not be
| passed.
The old "North State,n sunk some time
| ago at Yalaha, has been raised and taken to
Lane Park by Capt E. B. Walker. The
boat was bought by the well-known mer-
chants of jacksonville & Smith.
The machinery of this boat will be taken to
| Jacksonville and placed in a new boat now
being built for the Indian river trade.
jacksonville Herald: Col. Papy, of the
| Florida Railway and Navigation Company,
| informs the Herald that prospects are very
encouraging for the establishment here of
the contemplated cotton compress, and that
one firm now stands ready to furnish S75, 900
| towards it. Col Papy has labored unceas-
ingly for this gigantic business enterprise,
and it is truly gratifying to himself and all
the citizens here that the outlook is so bright.
The officials OF the Treasury Department
| estimated that it viii cost the following to
I collect the revenue from customs during the
| fiscal year soon to commence: For the port
of Jacksonville, 5000; st. Augustine,
| 81 $50; Fernandina, 81, 800; Key West, s35,-
| $40; Cedar Key, 81. 100; Pensacola. ST, $50:
and Apalachicola, 50, 280. The department
is in favor of only one custom port on the
| east coast of Florida, and that at jackson
vile.
! The peach season is at hand at Interlachen.
! Francis & Long, also Wimberly & Young
are shipping in peck crates to New York
and Boston, realizing large prices as they
have responsible parties at the other end to
! produced from 9-year-old trees 1t is now
| believed that the peach crop will become a
more profitable one than the orange, but
why not mix the crop on the ground! Plant
the peach alternate with the orange.
A game of ball was played Wednesday
afternoon between the colored clubs of
| Tampa and Sanford. at the Sanford Base
| Ball Park. The Tampa club was badly over
matched, as the score would indicate. AT
the end of the game, which was played in
| good spirit throughout, the score stood 81 to
9 in favor of the Sanford club. When the
sable-hued Sanfordite goes to the bat he has
an idea that he viii hit something, and the
ball is what he aims at. He usually gets
there"
Samuel ID. hawthorne, OF Hawthorne, is
getting good returns from his vegetables.
| From half an acre he has shipped 239 crates
of Tomatoes, the returns netting 50 50 per
crate; he will not lack much of shipping 100
| crates from this half acre. This farm and
grove, and the adjoining one of Mr. Yoder,
are model farms, plenty of "elbow grease"
being used in the cultivation. If some of
the many GROWERS and calamity liars would
| try plenty of the same fertilizers there
would be less to grumble about.
From an examination of the calendars of
| the House and Senate, il would seem that
the Florida legislators had been very busy
during the past two months in introducing
bills, if not in passing them. In the House
357 have been offered, in the Senate 294. OF
this grand total. 65l bills, only very small
number, less than 10 per cent, have passed
Some were hurried through the closing
| days of the session, but the fate of the many
| will be oblivion until 1889, when they will
come up again with the same old chestnut
regularity.
, Lightning gave the Lake City Citizen
office a close call Thursday evening, SILVER
| ing large pride Of India tree near the cor
ner of the building and senSibly affecting
the editor and two of the compositors, be-
sides several other people in the vicinity.
: The thunder storm prevailing at fine ti,na